How would you set your PANscape?

[HUD]

You've got
lead voc
doubled 2 part b/u vox (4 tracks)
piano - recorded with wide spread along the range of keyboard (narrow it to mono?)
2 elec guitars clean & chunky, switching high & low ranges
bass
drums

[zxyz]

I definitely wouldn't narrow the piano to mono. Close, maybe, but not strictly mono.
The rest depends on the particular song, methinks.

[cjdenecia]

[mistertroll]

Okay, now I have headache.

One if these days, about twenty years from now, I'll read this thread, and go "Oh, yeah!".

But not tonight...

[zxyz]

Yeah,troll. I gotta headache after reading cj's post too.
My input is Drums spanned at -150/75,guitars at 5000:1 the Q set at - 2/675, the bass at 450, and the parametric quantum flux capacitor set at time dimension OO.-985/parsecs times the cross-dimesional width of the stereo spectrum. How's that?

[mistertroll]

[zxyz]

Cheers!! I'm there too!

[Jay]

Hud, you (Bish) of all people should know... the devil's in the details.

Post a sample of your track, and then I'll let you know how I'd set my PANscape, for whatever that's worth.

[shankarji]

I always imagine the band on stage and then set the pan accordingly...apart from having the lead vox and bass central with the drums panned across the stereo field.

[HUD]

[cjdenecia]

btw - regarding -100, +100 settings ... for example with vox, if set this way but with sidechained fx - such as verb laid on - there is still some trace of the track on the weak side. at least when using busses and fx on the buss ...

[HUD]